This is our justice system and, in the words of several politicians recently, it is broken. They may well have been referring to something completely different, but this is a clear example of something which needs reform, which definitely needs attention, and now, not later. Screenshot Source: Twitter / The Independent Why only 60 days […]

This could be a big one. This could be the battle which finally decides the future of the United Kingdom, and their relationship with Europe. After all the lies and the propaganda of the Brexit campaign – on both sides – something has happened which could be a turning point. Apparently the major British supermarket […]

I honestly thought I had read everything there is to read about the downside of dating sites, about the cheating when setting them up, about the money-grabbing, about the level of fraud. I was wrong: it has taken a step towards the middle ring of Hades. Just reading the sparse information on this screenshot from […]

It’s that time of the year again and, unlike last year, that time of the year falls on a weekday. Happiness for those who can claim an extra day off from work, rather than complaining that a holiday day falls on a day which is free anyway, but mass panic when it comes to the […]

There has been some comment about new carriages for women only on German trains – I may well have mentioned it earlier in another post – and the suggestion that this has come about exclusively because of the number of refugees arriving in Germany over the last year or so. The exclusive carriages have caused […]

Perhaps you don’t want to go there, but this post from Slate – without going into the depth and breadth of the linked article in any way – raises one or two questions. The first, of course, is: Why would anyone want to touch the genitals of a robot in the first place? Screenshot Source: […]

It’s one of those several times of year when everyone begins to celebrate and make claims. Claims based on a fable written several thousand years ago, and constantly changed ever since. We hear about certain values, about the rising of the dead, about how light has been brought back into the (Christian) world. The British […]

I don’t know when I first gave up on north American society and its values, but it was probably about the same time as I discovered that Europe is not the Old World with Old World Values some politicians have claimed it to be. And now I look back at the values of the north […]

Have you seen those people who believe that they are so important they must be reachable at all times of the day and night? You know the ones: they have a gadget permanently stuck in their ear; they sit in art galleries looking into the laps; they hold up traffic on the freeway; they walk […]

I can see the thinking behind this Tweet from the Financial Times: a car driven by a computer is not going to be distracted, not by a phone, by the kids, by a rabbit running across the road. A car driven by a computer is going to drive in the right direction, at the right […]